Posts of: Jay Taber
Culture and Identity
Strong Society As Patsy Whitefoot, president of the National Indian Education Association, observes, there are some things you can’t learn in school. For the Yakama elder, culture and identity are…
Read moreNoble Savage Saga
PBS Pablum? Is the PBS series on Native Americans, We Shall Remain, yet another noble savage saga, instilling sympathy in whites and hopelessness in contemporary Indians? Is Steven Newcomb of…
Read moreProud Descendants
Tim Giago tells the Lakota view of Little Bighorn, and why Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho descendants of that battle are proud of their victory over General Custer and the Seventh…
Read moreUnity and Solidarity
No Justice No Peace Many of the destabilized societies of the world were once colonized by Great Britain: Afghanistan, Australia, Iraq, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Sudan, to name a few….
Read moreWhat Has Been Lost
After centuries of diaspora and displacement, identities are increasingly complex. For those whose tribal identity has been extinguished — as in most Europeans of North America — what’s left of…
Read moreThe Hippies Were Right
It is more than ironic that those who came of age and consciousness in time for the first Earth Day in 1970, now find hope not in the leader of…
Read moreThe Human Condition
One of the things I learned studying effective political leadership — from South Africa to Northern Ireland — is that democracy is achieved in large part by communicating. Proposing one’s…
Read moreMinority Rights
ICERD Guide Minority Rights Group International has published a downloadable guide for NGOs on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The manual on ICERD…
Read moreLiving on Earth
The only way you could identify the Earth’s destroyers as “humankind” would be to exempt tribal people from the category of “human.” Otherwise you would have to admit that it…
Read moreInto the Future
The evolution of tribes into multicultural entities embracing each other as well as non-tribal peoples, holds promise not only for the continuity of indigenous cosmologies, but also for the future…
Read moreChief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library
The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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